An illustrated guide to post-Orwellian censorship (2021)
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An illustrated guide to post-Orwellian censorship (2021)
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#3HN thread at the time:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28316443 2021, 150ish comments
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#4With regards to the section on Flooding:
> We characterize the contemporary Russian model for propaganda as “the firehose of falsehood” because of two of its distinctive features: high numbers of channels and messages and a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions. In the words of one observer, “[N]ew Russian propaganda entertains, confuses and overwhelms the audience.”[2]
> Contemporary Russian propaganda has at least two other distinctive features. It is also rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it lacks commitment to consistency.
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> The experimental psychology literature tells us that first impressions are very resilient: An individual is more likely to accept the first information received on a topic and then favor this information when faced with conflicting messages.[13] Furthermore, repetition leads to familiarity, and familiarity leads to acceptance:
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#5It is interesting how meta-propaganda like this article (comic book), or Peter Pomerantsev's This Is Not Propaganda, or your average YouTube video on "propaganda" tends to infantilize the reader.
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#6With regards to the section on Flooding: > We characterize the contemporary Russian model for propaganda as “the firehose of falsehood” because of two of its distinctive features: high numbers of channels and messages and a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions. In the words of one observer, “[N]ew Russian propaganda entertains, confuses and overwhelms the audience.”[2] > Contempora…
This is extremely effective in an age where people will only read headlines, and often barely even that.
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#7This article is a bit narrow in scope, e.g.
> "Horrified by Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Germany, Orwell spun a tale that continues to color how we picture state censorship in controlled societies."
Orwell was equally 'horrified' by the British Empire's imperialist practices, which he documented in then-Burma. See "Shooting an Elephant" for example:
George Orwell: "I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing.... I was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_an_Elephant
Now, if you want to experience censorship in the 'Western liberal democracies' today, just replace "the Burmese" in that quote with "the Palestinians."
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#10Interesting, when I saw the title i thought it's an article about self censorship of entertainment in order to not offend any possible pressure group. Seems to be about present day dictatorships though.